terroir

Single-origin chocolate goes mainstream

WASHINGTON - Call it chocolate with a pedigree. Like a good Bordeaux or Chianti, some chocolate comes from a particular place — the Indonesian island of Java or Venezuela's Sur del Lago, for...

Heathcote Shiraz: regionality in Australia

Regionality is a bit of a theme in the new world, these days. People are recognizing that there are some sites that are just great for wine growing, which I guess fits in with the notion of terroir....

Gestos Malbec: cheap and good

I'm hesitant to describe a £6 wine as 'cheap', because for many people that's quite a bit of money, and you'll just think I'm some loaded snob. But, let's face it, £6 isn't a lot for a bottle of wine...

Sena, Henschke and some boring Zins

This morning I went to a seminar on Terroir and innovation in the new world, put on by Lay and Wheeler to showcase their portfolios from Henschke and Sena/Arboleda. Prue and Stephen Henscke, and...

Talking terroir...

Riccardo Cotarella is one of the most famous figures in Italian wine. He's a consulting winemaker to a slew of different estates, many of whom have caught the eye of Robert Parker. But not everyone...

More on terroir and minerality

Really good article on terroir by Harold McGee and Daniel Patterson in the New York Times. 'The idea that one can taste the earth in a wine is appealing, a welcome link to nature and place in a...

Biodynamic wine - fact or fiction?

If you are wine blogger, then you will know that WBW for January 2007 is about biodynamic wine. The question is are you a believer or a sceptic?I believe in science and materialism. Not the...